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Welcome to The WardsAuto Dealer 5 - we've put together important items from WardsAuto.com and across the Internet. So let's go:
| 1. | In a BTW, TrueCar announces Scott Painter is leaving as CEO of TrueCar. Here's a look at his mark on the industry. | ||
| 2. | Affable Andrew DeFio jokes he has a Ph.D. that stands for “Papa has a dealership.” But he’s paid attention during a 17-year automotive career. Here is some of what he’s learned. | ||
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| 3. | A former NADA chairman shows an audience a piece of broccoli and a doughnut as visuals for an analogy about car-buyer preferences. His point. | ||
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A Tesla executive’s speech starts out fine, but then takes a wrong turn as he seems intent on denying competitors the same taxpayer-funded incentives that helped his auto company.
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| 5. | Europeans order cars and wait for the factory to build them. Americans find cars on dealer lots and buy them right now. Local Motors will split the difference: It will build a car – while you wait. |
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